Senior QA Automation Engineer

Requisition ID  

17060

Country   India Location type   Remote About us  

Korn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm. We help clients synchronize strategy and talent to drive superior performance. Korn Ferry works with organizations to design their structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people to bring their strategy to life. And we advise them on how to reward, develop, and motivate their people. Our 10,000 colleagues serve clients in more than 50 countries.

Korn Ferry Digital is a scaled product business unit within Korn Ferry that develops and sells our suite of talent products and HR technology, supporting clients across six solution areas:

• Organizational Strategy
• Assessment and Succession
• Talent Acquisition
• Leadership and Professional Development
• Sales and Service
• Total Rewards

Our comprehensive talent suite leverages a combination of proprietary talent IP, talent data, analytics and insights to help customers understand their workforce and existing talent gaps, and deliver targeted talent interventions at scale using HR technology.

Job description  

OPPORTUNITY TO ENHANCE YOUR CAREER - It’s about exceeding your potential.

Ensures the company’s software products meet quality standards by researching, consulting, performing testing processes and leveraging automation tools to measure total product quality.  Performs quality assurance activities requiring planning, scheduling, and testing to ensure that developed or third-party products meet functional business requirements and technical design specifications.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build testcases and scripts (using Selenium, Java and other needed tools like JIRA etc.) based upon business requirements and technical design specifications with emphasis on positive testing, negative testing, integration testing, and performance/ stress testing.
• Build test scenarios and test strategies to ensure top quality application delivery.
• Build testing strategies to make sure deliverables are tested from different angles like performance, scalability, and usability.
• Meet with Product Manager and Dev Manager to choose sprint scope based on QA resource availability and Product Management’s work item priorities.
• Coordinate with Dev Manager and DevOps on the timing of QA release deployments.
• Responsible for maintaining QA artifacts.
• Develops and executes automation testing strategy and processes.
• Responsible for Test environment setup including application installation, test data preparation, documentation, and assets management.
• Responsible for QA deliverables and status reporting.
• Peer-Review test scripts and test results.
• Provides feedback loop to Product Manager and Development Mangers on overall product quality.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year College or university and at least three to five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 6+ years Quality Assurance experience.
• 4+ years of experience QA Automation using Java, Selenium, Cucumber, Maven, TestNG
• 2+ years of experience working on SAAS products.
• A good understanding of SQL – able to create SQL scripts to obtain required data.
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Experience in Rest API testing and Automation
• Excellent communication skills.
• Critical thinking and multitasking.
• General programming knowledge and experience.
• Ability to develop detailed test cases based on software/hardware changes.
• Ability to execute and evaluate results of detailed test cases.
• Ability to learn new technologies and business concepts quickly.
• Knowledge of the system/software development life cycle.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with automated test tools is required.
• Familiarity with the Agile Development process is a plus.
• QA certification is a pl